This book provides an overview of flood and drought in the Lower Mekong Basin, reviews the characteristics of flood and drought, and details structural and non-structural measures for flood and drought mitigation employed in the basin countries...Loe edasi...

The author has spent approximately 50 years in the field of systems engineering. This Focus book provides a looking back at his 50-year run and the lessons he learned and would like to share with other engineers, so they can use these lessons...Loe edasi...

This is a book about how cities occupy space. We are not interested in architectural masterpieces, but the tools for reinventing city life. We try to provide a framework for the architecture and design of public space without aesthetic considerations...Loe edasi...

This book presents human-centered concepts and solutions for mobility, logistics and infrastructure that will make our growing metropolitan areas more livable and sustainable.The still accelerating megatrend of urbanization is le...Loe edasi...

The book describes the theory and current practices for design of earth lateral support for deep excavations in soil. It addresses basic principles of soil mechanics and explains how these principles are embodied in design methods including ha...Loe edasi...

This book is the result of the teaching experience of the three authors on several courses in advanced soil mechanics, finite element analysis, soil modeling and experimental methods in soil mechanics. The authors have a rich and varied experienc...Loe edasi...

Thermal Engineering of Nuclear Power Stations: Balance-of-Plant Systems serves as a ready reference to better analyze common engineering challenges in the areas of turbine cycle analysis, thermodynamics, and heat transfer.The scope of the b...Loe edasi...

Mit biologischer Messtechnik zum gesunden WohnenThis fresh edition of a key work on scheduling assesses the latest developments and covers theoretical models as well as real-world scheduling problems. It includes software that contains slide shows f...Loe edasi...

Formed of research works presented at the 10th International Conference on High Performance and Optimum Design of Structures and Materials, the included papers cover issues involving advanced types of structures, particularly those based on new...Loe edasi...

Given rapid changes in technology and of new product launches, goals and applications in cryogenics have changed over the last decade. In order to keep pace with these new technologies, we need to prepare advanced cryogenic solution strategies....Loe edasi...

Introduction to Process Control, Third Edition continues to provide a bridge between traditional and modern views of process control by blending conventional topics with a broader perspective of integrated process operation, control, and inform...Loe edasi...

This book describes psychosocial working conditions that negatively impact the mental and physical well-being of employees of various assistance-related professional groups, as well as individuals whose work is related to contact with demanding cl...Loe edasi...

This book focuses on safeguarding civil structures and residents from natural hazards such as earthquakes through the use of active control. The first part of the book addresses modelling and feedback control in inelastic structures and prese...Loe edasi...

This reference work encompasses the current, accepted state of the art in the science of wildfires and wildfires that spread to communities, known as wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires. 171 author contributions include accepted knowled...Loe edasi...

This reference work encompasses the current, accepted state of the art in the science of wildfires and wildfires that spread to communities, known as wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires. 171 author contributions include accepted knowled...Loe edasi...

Vehicle–bridge interaction happens all the time on roadway bridges and this interaction performance carries much useful information. On one hand, while vehicles are traditionally viewed as loads for bridges, they can also be deemed as sensors for...Loe edasi...